At least 10,000 people are feared missing in Libya in floods caused by a storm that burst dams and swept away buildings
NEAR DERNA, Libya – At least 10,000 people were feared missing in Libya on Tuesday, September 12, in floods caused by a huge storm that burst dams, swept away buildings and wiped out as much as a quarter of the eastern city of Derna.
“Bodies are lying everywhere – in the sea, in the valleys, under the buildings,” Hichem Abu Chkiouat, minister of civil aviation in the administration that controls the east, told Reuters by phone shortly after visiting Derna. United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that emergency teams were now being mobilized to help on the ground.
“We have nothing to save people … no machines…we are asking for urgent help,” said Khalifah Touil, an ambulance worker, said.
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